CAN AN OBJECT EXIST WITHOUT COMMUNICATING ANTHING?

VERNISSAGE: 16—19:00, 6 NOV. 2021

BROKEN

TOOLS

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY DALE LAWRENCE

2016 – 2021

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OVERVIEW:

1:

Making Work, 2016
Ironing T-shirts, 2016

2:

Non-committal, 2017
Serra’s List, Revised, 2018/21
Composition in Black and White, 2018/21

3:

Another Helping, 2017
53 Attempts, 2019
Nameless and Friendless, 2019
Keeping Up Appearances, 2017

4:

Seen but Not Heard, 2021
Seen but Not Heard, 2021
To Bear Witness to Life, 2021
To Bear Witness for Life, 2021

5:

Every purchase is a vote

6:

Tragedy of the Rainbow Warriors
(after Jannis Kounellis and Francois Pienaar): 2021
If It’s All the Same to You, 2018

7:

Self-portrait under the Lamp: 2021

8:

In relation to my friends
and people who are not my friends

9:

Lockdown Monotypes, 2020–21

10:

Lockdown Monotypes, 2020–21 (details)

11:

Relief on Hospital Floor (videos)

12:

Relief on Hospital Floor, 2021
Relief on Hospital Floor with Serving Spoon, 2021
Remnants of a Destroyed Printing Block, 2021

13:

A Modest Price for My Work, 2020

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15:

Ends and Beginnings, 2021
I Must Apologise, 2021

In-exhibition texts written by Dale Lawrence (2016—2021)

RESOURCES:

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︎ Introduction to the exhibition

︎ On Gesture and Risk in Dale Lawrence’s Broken Tools: an essay by Cape Town artist and art critic, Sean O’Toole, 2021

︎ Interview with Manuela Klerkx for Gallery Viewer, published 22 Nov. 2021:

‘We like to ‘fix’ things. But you can’t fix broken things or a broken system unless you have broken tools. I mean, you can change or adapt a system, but if the system in itself is not ok, you don’t fix anything really.’

︎ From a Text Written for an Unsuccessful Residency Application: a text by Dale Lawrence, published on the occassion of the artist’s solo exhibition, Amateur Hour (Johannesburg, 2018)

︎ Another Helping: a conversation between Dale Lawrence and Matthew Freemantle to accompany Lawrence’s solo exhibition of the same title (Cape Town, 2017)

︎ look busy: a creative text by Cape Town poet, Matthew Freemantle to accompany Lawrence’s solo exhibition of the same title (Cape Town, 2016)

︎ About the artist
︎ Artist’s website
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